What makes for the Best Place to Work
Eat Sleep Work Repeat - better workplace culture
Bruce Daisley
4.7 • 989 Ratings
🗓️ 27 January 2026
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
I'm joined by Daniel Zhao, chief economist of Glassdoor, who talks me through their new rankings of the best places to work in 2026.
It's an intriguing list, is a car wash really better than some of the most famous tech brands in the world?
The ranking allows us to explore what we want in a job: culture, connection, progression and autonomy.
Glassdoor: Top US places to work
Glassdoor: Top UK places to work
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| 0:00.0 | This is Eat, Sleep, Work, Repeat, a podcast about making better workplace culture. |
| 0:07.2 | Hello, I'm Bruce Daisley. |
| 0:08.5 | Just a quick hit episode today, I've been a keen follower of the Glass Door website for a long time. |
| 0:15.8 | They often publish interesting data that analyzes some of the things that they find. |
| 0:20.7 | So for those who don't know, |
| 0:22.4 | Glass Door is a website that allows you to go and review your current employer and quite often |
| 0:27.8 | allows you in return to see reviews of other employers. Maybe if you're considering going |
| 0:33.6 | somewhere else, you want to check out what people are saying about the culture. Or you just want to give your own employer a rating, a perspective about what management should |
| 0:42.7 | change. And as a result, it produces quite a healthy data set. In the past, we've featured an |
| 0:48.6 | interview with Donald and Charles Salt, a father and son research duo who used Glass Door data. To give us a perspective |
| 0:56.2 | on the whole world of work, they've used data to suggest that actually when it comes to |
| 1:02.7 | staying at a company, culture is way more important than salary or way more important than |
| 1:08.9 | several other aspects. Really helpful examination of what comes from Glassdoor. |
| 1:14.6 | I was interested in chatting to them as their brand new league table for the best firms to work at in the US came out. |
| 1:23.3 | So I was able to chat to their chief economist, Daniel Zau, |
| 1:27.0 | and he was able to take me under |
| 1:29.8 | the hood of their methodology, explain what it means, but also really sort of try and unpack |
| 1:35.4 | some of the trends that they were seeing. |
| 1:36.8 | So one of the big trends is that tech firms are no longer the most desirable places to |
| 1:42.0 | work. |
| 1:42.2 | That's partly because I think tech firms have gone out of their |
| 1:45.3 | way to deprioritise. One of the things that's most well desired at the moment, that is |
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